Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-10-15
FACT AND FANCY.

New York city would like 10 have the Chris
t0pher Columbus celebration In 1892
Key West Fla. dispatch says there has
been no fever there since the LIST inst.
A Jewish synagogue win shortly be erected |
at San Diego, CAL at cost Of $4,000
The Chinese population Of San Francisco. IL
is stated is larger now than ever before.
A 2-year-old horse recently swan six miles
across lake near Seattle, Washington terri
tory
The government OF Guatemala offers all
possible facilities. to vessels trading on its
coasts.
Creosoied pine ties are considered more
valuable than oak by many southern
engineers.
A meeting in favor Of the abolition Of
slavery was recently prohibited BY the govern
ment Of Brazil
Pleas, one who has tried It asserts, may be
driven away by scattering -four Of sulphur
literally about.
Large numbers OF German emlgrants are on
their way TO central California, where they
propose TO form colony.
The thrilling story Of the tarantula duel is
piVuDunIEA M aAAAnktN AhN NNsA -
by The Mexican Findneter.
A prohibition convention, TO he held Sept
% at Stanton, has been called by two
hundred lawyers, farmers, and ministers OF
Virginia.
G. G. WHITE. travelling salesman Of New
| York house. claims ~ have In bis possession a
pocket-knlfe which was once the property oil
Napoleon |.
The general government OF Columbia has
| determined 10 erect, for account OF the nation,
/ a lighthouse near the entrance TO the mouth
| Of the canal at Colon.
A wildcat killed in Clay county, Mississippi
i one day recently. by J. n. Cogdell, measured
\ from the end OF its mnstacbe 10 the tip OF its
tail S feet aud IL inches, and weighed 1915
| pounds.
The first win Of an Indian ever filed in the
courts of Washington territory was admitted
70 probate Monday at Tacoma. His nam'
was Milton Fisher. He died on the PuyalluF
reservation six months ago.
At recent Italian picnic in Paterson, n. j.
tao silk flags that matched, italian and
American, made OF silk, woven in one piece
aud at a cost OF $500 were unfurled. Twt
thousand Italians were present
A lady on the steamer snevia, just in from
Europe, gave birth during the voyage 3
TWINS sea-born lusty boy and pink mer
maid of q girl. The iady's husband is Il
Hong Kong, whittier she was iourneying :
meet him.
In 1869 the citizens OF Flnchburg, Mass.
presented t'Prince." fine black horse TO Gen
Kimbail. their soEdlcr idol he rode the AM
NAL all through the war aud at the recent an
nuAl reunion OF the SD regiment OF hsssacA
usetts volunteers.
I The recent discovery OF several Valuabl
! springs Oh different mineral waters In Cost
Rlea has caused the government to issue d.
, cree declaring all such 10 be the property
the state and ordering that in future non
; shall be transferred TO private ownership.
! The following card appears in recent issu
\ of q paper published at San Antonii
Tex: ~ want the public 10 distinctly unde
: stand that my husband is no negro. "
mother was a creole French woman and m
father a Cherokee Indian, and my husband
8 mother was Comanche Indian and bis faith
a a German
s Knole house, Seven Oaks, the seat Of Lo
v sackyille, which recently came near being q
] kIfQNE1 UN ufEs was y paw Va SeAeaNN&~
note even before the days OF Edward ]. al
: D'uhey says 10 abiding to It that 'hnc
j. most famous in Kent still appears, VIC
/ mansions surveyed for thousand long years
A The stables were known as the kings stab
ever since King Henry Wills time, althoul
: be was probably not the first and he certain
y was not the last monarch who visited
d place. That poientate so much admired
10 situation Of the house that in royal fashion
forced the archbishop. MY Lord Cranmcr
20 make him g present OF Knole. Cranm
tried 70 induce Henry 10 think the resideu
u too small, but the king answered: Marry
% viii live at Knoleln That settled the quesaC
Of and the archbishop forthwith made over
ii property TO him
"a Chattanooga Is greatly excited over IA
cure, which, It Is said, took place ssturd
night For a year and half Mrs W,
i Jordan has been utterly helpless, and DUR
u all OF that time has been confined TO her D
III An emlssary 10 the Christian Science, OF .
mr. ton, arrived in the city Saturday and pra,
service lasting two hours was held In the no
OF the sick woman. She Joined heartily In
service, and all at once arose from her b
n nut on her clothes, and left the house.
TO walked a distance OF ten squares unaid
n Sunday morning she attended church for
first time in Two years When she ente
church decided sensation was created,
mos, intimate friends refusing TO believe ii
own ewes. Mrs. Jordan is a firm believer
's- the faith cure. She has been unable 10 le
b. her bed for over eighteen months. Inc al
rs has caused genuine sensation.
n The nomenclature Of towns and cities
:. This country, writes Washington correspo
ent, is fun OF pcculisrities not the least
"a which arc those names which mislead one
MT 20 location BY following the name Of sta
At Durtnr President ArlbuT's administra'
vn there was an incident which pointedly u
:. trated thls phase. The term OF gov'
- men, officer had expired at Michigan c
He was under the treasury department,
he az the heads OF which wrote to the sent
so from Michigan, o. ID. Conger, asking whei
,rd the man should be reappoinied or whet
~. the senator would recommend another. 5
y, tor Couger replied that he would like q
uu DAYS In which TO ascertain the wishes OF
al constituents, when lac would report to tue
ste partment. In about week letter G
Is from him 10 which he stated that he had
10 covered that Michigan City was not In Mi
gan, but IN Indiana, aud that he Thought
W. would not invade Senator Hsrrison's 3
nSi wick with suggestions. Neither be nor
sh- treasury official had at first been aware OF
The fact, aud the name had nisled them 6oti
bic In the geological garden at Phlladclphi'
no hog'deer which mas q Mse 1890, Tr.s i,
ous lacking his family aud soaring his mate o.
'es her wits. lie wound up hts spree by innl'
oks Two severe cuts on the body OF, Mrs |
,al- and then the superintendent decided
~. ,fN.,. - fas,,a him